Hi,
 
This may be a stupid question, but I can't figure out a way to solve it.

When an email notification is sent for a posting in the group area it contains a link to the group page to see the update.  If this is a private group then it requires the user to login, so they are redirected to the login page of the website.  They then login and are brought to their profile page, instead of being redirected back to the URL in which contains the group page which had the update.  This is confusing for a very active user because they may be a part of many groups and not know which one was updated.

I know in DNN when you have a link that is clicked and is trying to access a protected page, in an email it will send the user to the login page and have reference to the original URL so that after the user logs in they are directed to the original page intended.  However in this case the redirect URL is not included when the user is redirected to the login page.  Is there a setting or something that is affecting how this works so that when the user logs in they will be taken to the appropriate group page to see the update?

Thanks
James

Hi,

I was hoping someone would have some kind direction for me.  Does anyone have any ideas about this?

Thanks
James

I did find sort of a solution. If I take the forum pages and in the page settings make it for registered users only, then when someone clicks on the link in the email instead of being redirected by the activesocial module to the login page, dnn does the redirecting which includes the URL so that after they login they are brought to the appropriate page. This works fine for my situation, although I can see that some people may not want the page to be protected by DNN like that, so it would be nice if when activesocial redirects someone to the login page it included the URL so that after login the user is brought to the appropriate page. If there is a setting for this and I missed it, I would like to know for the future!

Thanks
James

This is probably what is causing your other problems with group discussions that you have been reporting.

Hi Will,

No, this has nothing to do with group discussions.  When you click on "discussions" in group it just doesn't work.  It shows the "add topic" but when clicked takes you back to the groups page rather than into the forum.  This is in another thread I posted so I wont go further on this one.

Thanks
James

Will,

By your response, I am assuming that the answer to the issue is that activesocial does not have the functionality of taking a user who clicks on the link in an email to a private group discussion and redirecting the user to the login page and include the original URL so that after they login it takes them to the appropriate place? It simply takes them to the login page, and after they login they are brought to the profile page?

Thanks
James

Hi James,
You changed permissions on the page where your forums are right? Now you are having a permissions problem accessing the forums from within a group, right?

Again, you are having issues that others are not. Please email support and include host access information so we can take a closer look.